Sentence examples for detectives were able to from inspiring English sources
Detectives were able to match it to footprints in the apartment directly below Shelly's office.
Detectives were able to interview the victim, who identified Mr. McBride as her assailant, a law enforcement official said.
The agency's own investigators, many of them retired New York police detectives, were able to connect a name to the bones.
Through computer and phone records, detectives were able to establish a direct link to the eventual suspect, Philip Markoff, a 22-year-old medical student.
The police said such a request requires a subpoena, but detectives were able to monitor activity on Denzel's page, and saw none.
Detectives were able to give a reasonable estimate of the time of the crash based on the emergency call from the scene, prosecutors said.
"Michael Brown had one more voice after that shooting, and his voice was the detectives' being able to do a comprehensive job," said Jon Belmar, chief of the St . Louis County Police Department
This, too, seems like a strategy learned from mysteries, where good detectives are able to identify with the perpetrator — but only so far — and where they have to finish the job quickly, because they're always working against the clock.
Defense lawyers say investigators, led by June Boyle, a veteran Fairfax County homicide detective, were able to question Mr. Malvo outside the presence of his lawyers because his federal public defenders in Baltimore were not told where he had been sent and because the courts in Virginia had not appointed legal counsel there.
But the ship was lost off Newfoundland in waters some two and a half miles deep, and no author or naval detective was able to resolve the mystery.
